Fromm, the younger brother of Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm, is a 6-foot-5, 225-pound prospect from Warner Robbins, Georgia, caught 43 passes for 529 yards and five touchdowns as a junior last year while on a Warner Robbins High School team that advanced to the Georgia High School Athletic Association Class AAAAA title game.

Before he left the Auburn athletics facility Saturday, Tyler Fromm told reporters that he had yet informed his older brother of his verbal pledge but would do so very soon.

"Auburn is definitely family-oriented, and I just felt like I can fit in offensively,” Tyler Fromm told Inside the Auburn Tigers. “I feel I can be used in different ways from what they have now.”

Jake Fromm finished his freshman year at Georgia by leading the Bulldogs to the national championship game after finishing the 2017 season by completing 62 percent of his passes for 2,615 yards and 24 touchdowns with just seven interceptions.

"I have just been thinking about it so much and I feel like I can fit in and make an impact," said Tyler Fromm. "I haven't talked to Jake yet, but he would be proud of me. He wants me to go somewhere where I will play and make an impact."

Tyler Fromm, wh was primarily recruited by Auburn tight ends coach Larry Porter, chose Auburn over scholarship offers from Florida, LSU, Louisville, South Carolina and Georgia. However, according to 247Sports.com, Georgia was not yet one of the reported scholarship offers for the 2019 prospect.

After being unable to fill critical needs at offensive tackle and tight end in its 2018 recruiting class despite having numerous prospects take official campus visits over the last month of the recruiting process, Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn said those would be of extremely high priority.

“I really feel like we need a big-time tight end, and I feel like we need another O-lineman, an impact O-lineman or two, but overall I’m feeling really good with where we’re at,” Malzahn said on Dec. 20 during the end of the early signing period. “Everything pretty much held true to what we thought; there wasn’t a whole lot of surprises.”

Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm (11) throws against Alabama in first half action of the College Football Playoff National Championship Game in the Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga., on Monday January 8, 2018. (Mickey Welsh / Montgomery Advertiser)

The tight end quandary could be a harder problem for Auburn’s coaching staff to solve in recruiting after the position has had only six receptions in the last three seasons. The hiring of offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey was supposed to awaken a tight end position that has been dormant in the passing game since C.J. Uzomah left Auburn’s campus as an NFL draft pick.

“I think the goal is to eventually have a guy who can do all three, play in the backfield, attach and flex,” Lindsey said last month in his only media appearance this spring. “All those guys (on the Auburn have spent time this spring doing both.”